I'm a girl born in the wrong decade. I belong in the 1960s or the 1970s in my opinion. I bleed tie dye, my theme music is anything 1960s rock or 1970s rock or metal. I'm a hippie through and through. But also a hippie who loves old metal music. I believe that violence never solves anything, so why resort to it to solve problems? With all the wars the world has seen, there should be a clue somewhere in there!

Life is what happens when you are making other plans~ John Lennon
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind~Gandhi
The time is always right to do what is right~ Martin Luther King Jr.

Friday, May 27, 2011

Retro/Vintage

I have 2 b probably the biggest hippie anyone in my family knows, they all know I'm totally in to the 1960s scene, as some would call it. So this blog is devoted to all things retro/vintage!

1960s

TV
Some of the popular TV shows at the time include:

Gunsmoke

Wagon Train

The Andy Griffifth Show

The Untouchables

Rawhide

The Jack Benny Program. Back then, things like this were called 'programs' instead of 'shows' like we call them today

The Ed Sullivan Show

Petticoat Junction

The Man from U.N.C.L.E

The Lawrence Welk Show

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

Hawaii Five-O

Music
When it comes to 1960s music, most of the music that dominated the 1960s was from the British Invasion era. Bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Dave Clark Five took America by storm and suddenly all these girls started screaming bloody murder for these guys from England. It wasn't just Brit rock that rocked America, it was also Motown, 'Message Songs', classic rock

British Invasion

The Beatles

The Rolling Stones

Gerry and the Pacemakers

The Kinks

The Who

The Dave Clark Five

Dusty Springfield

Petula Clark

Motown

The Temptations

The Four Tops

Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

Diana Ross and the Supremes

Classic Rock

Jefferson Airplane
Jimi Hendrix

Janis Joplin
The Doors
Steppenwolf
The Mamas and the Papas

Lovin' Spoonful
David Bowie. I just noticed he has 2 different colored eyes, whoa, cool, and he was pretty good looking in the 1960s

Pink Floyd
The Moody Blues

'Message Songs'
These songs always have a hidden message hidden within the songs

Bob Dylan
Peter, Paul and Mary
Joan Baez
Barry McGuire
John Lennon
CCR(Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Sly and the Family Stone
Crosby, Stills and Nash, which would later go on to be known as Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Movies
Alot of the movies in the 1960s were either James Bond movies or dramas

Lawrence of Arabia

Performance

Bonnie and Clyde

Psycho

Dr. Strangelove

To Kill a Mockingbird

Midnight Cowboy

The Graduate

A Hard Day's Night

West Side Story

Planet of the Apes

Goldfinger

In the Heat of the Night

Rosemary's Baby

Yellow Submarine

The Pink Panther

Cape Fear

The Miracle Worker

Georgy Girl

Goodbye, Mr. Chips. I seen this movie and I have to say it was very good. Very sad at the end!

Pop Culture

If only this came in a VW hippie bus!

The Beatles' first movie

Marilyn Monroe artwork done by Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol picture of British model Twiggy

Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger and Beatle John Lennon

1970s

Music
In the 70s, there was an abundance of disco music, dance music, and rock still continued to be popular, and some rock songs were even played in disco clubs, and some songs were even inspired by disco club songs, like The Rolling Stones' song 'Miss You', which was inspired by the thumping beat of disco music. Also in the 1970s, punk rock began to emerge, with bands like the Ramones, The Sex Pistols.
Here are some popular musicians of the 1970s, now mind you, most of the musicians from the 1960s became even more popular in the 1970s and later on:

Alice Cooper

And this is the same man that my sister goes head over heels for!

Black Sabbath

Bob Dylan

Bruce Springsteen

Ike and Tina

David Bowie. During the 1970s, he was known as Ziggy Stardust with his band The Spiders. Almost like a before and after picture.

Elton John

James Taylor

Bob Marley and the Wailers

Paul McCartney and Wings

Minnie Riperton

KISS. My favorite one is the one with the star over his eye, 2nd from the left

The Police

The Rolling Stones

The Who

Rod Stewart

The Sex Pistols

The Ramones

TV
For some reason, alot of the shows that were on in the 1970s had to do with police work.
Here are some popular TV shows from the 1970s: